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the light slows in speed and refracts due to glass being denser than air.

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It will change direction, in a process known as "refraction".

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When you tap a glass with a little water in it It has a high pitch when you tap a glass with water filled to the top it has a low pitch why does this happen?

Glass has a natural frequency at which it vibrates, known as its resonant frequency. If you put energy into the substance at its resonant frequency, you will force it to vibrate or resonate (resonance is a forced vibration). So, tapping imparts energy to the glass molecules and causes them to resonate. This motion sets up a wave of vibration traveling through the glass. The vibrating glass causes air molecules to vibrate similarly. The vibrating air molecules are the sound wave that you hear (the frequency or pitch of the sound wave is the same as the resonant frequency of the glass). As the resonant wave moves through the glass, it moves the water molecules with it, creating a wave of water that you can see near the edge of the glass. The dragging water molecules effectively increase the mass (both the water and the glass molecules) and reduce the energy of the wave traveling through the glass. When the energy is reduced, so is the frequency of the wave in the glass, which is reflected in the pitch of the sound wave that you hear. In simpler terms, when you tap a glass with a lot of water in it, there are fewer vibrations because they have more trouble traveling through the higher mass. Thus, the lower pitch.


Is a frosted glass translucent?

A translucent object is something that you can see through, but not completely. When light hits a translucent object, the light is scattered, meaning only some of the light passed through. An opaque object (like metal or wood) allows no light to pass through, and a transparent object (like glass or air) allows all or most light to pass.


Can glass objects be made through the lost-wax process?

Glass objects can be made through the lost-wax process


What is the Difference between glass fibre and fibreglass?

glass you can see through and fibreglass you can not


Is glass transparent translucent or opaque?

No, such a transparent metal is not possible. Metals are a conductor of electricity. As a result of this, electromagnetic waves of the wavelength of light cannot penetrate it.

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Alice, who appeared in Lewis Carroll's books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There.


The traveling of concentrated light through long tiny fibers of glass to carry sound is called fiber?

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What is the traveling of concentrated light through long tiny fibers of glass to carry sound is called?

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The traveling of concentrated light through long tiny fibers of glass to carry sound is called what?

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What can happen to light traveling through a glass filled with water?

Refraction of light occurs when a light pass through a glass that is filled with water. In this process, the light changes direction as it changes transmission medium.


Can toughened glass be cut?

Any attempt to cut toughened glass will result in the glass shattering into thousands of pieces. The glass needs to be cut before the glass goes through the toughening process.


What happens if light is passed through a glass slab whose sides are not parallel?

it becomes kinda prism


When sunlight is passed through a glass prism it breaks up into different colors when these colors are passed through a reverse prism they form white light this shows that?

sunlight contains all colors.


Why does a glass prism show so many colours when light passed through it?

A glass prism shows colors when light passes through it because of its density, the makeup of glass reflects certain colors and alters them to make a pattern like a rainbow.


In early experiments on electricity and matter an electrical current was passed through a glass tube containing?

gold leaves


How fast does glass move?

cracks in glass travel at over three thousand miles per hour